Press Releases

WASHINGTON, June 6 – After the Trump administration attempted to shutter the nation’s largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 39 Senate colleagues, today sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on four Trump administration nominees at the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The nominations...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on the reauthorization of the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program.        Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be...

WASHINGTON, June 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to new calculations from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania finding that more than 51,000 additional Americans will die each year if Trump’s “Big,...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, June 5, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing on four Trump administration nominees at the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The nominations include: Penny Schwinn to be Deputy Secretary of Education,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement on the new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) guidance calling on health care providers to stop performing dangerous gender transition procedures on children. HHS also instructed...

WASHINGTON – Today, May 22, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will consider multiple nominations at the Department of Labor, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, and the Department of Education. Agenda: Nomination of Julie Hocker to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Office of Disability...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to approve seven of President Trump’s nominees at the Department of Labor, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, and the Department of Education. The Committee approved these nominees en bloc by a party-line vote of 12-11. These nominations...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, May 22, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will consider multiple nominations at the Department of Labor, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, and the Department of Education. Agenda: Nomination of Julie Hocker to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Office of...

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, June 4, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program. Title: Reauthorization of the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program Witness: Dr. Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, Acting Director, Center for...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced the Auto Reenroll Act to help American workers take advantage of their available employer-sponsored retirement plans and full employer match offers by permitting more frequent...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing to discuss issues in higher education, and how to ensure students' educational success.        Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can...

WASHINGTON, May 21 – As President Trump and congressional Republicans are working overtime to make college unaffordable and unattainable for millions of working-class families in order to provide tax breaks to billionaires, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Rep....

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) announced the confirmed witnesses for this week’s HELP hearing on issues in higher education. The witnesses include university presidents Dr. Michael Lindsay of Taylor University and Dr. Mark A. Brown of Tuskegee...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, John Cornyn (R-TX), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced the Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act, which would authorize existing federal funding to help states streamline the application...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, hosted “Chartering Excellence: A Policy Briefing on Charter School Innovation,” an event on how to strengthen access to charter schools, so students can receive the best education that meets their individual...

WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, alongside Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to favorably report the nomination of Janet Dhillon to serve as the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation by a vote of 12-11. Click here to watch the full executive session.  Before the vote, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, May 22, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will consider multiple nominations at the Department of Labor, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, and the Department of Education. Agenda: Nomination of Julie Hocker to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Office of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss the  proposed HHS budget for fiscal year 2026. This is the first time in at...